In response, the President said Mr Comey had " better hope " there weren't any tapes of the conversations before he started "leaking to the press". Several outside advisers who speak to Trump regularly have said the president has not mentioned the existence of tapes during their conversations.

BJP led NDA government after a good thought process made a clever yet smart decision by naming Ram Nath Kovind as their presidential candidate. His name for the presidential candidature was welcomed by all NDA constituents except Shiv Sena, who had proposed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat among two names including leading agriculturist MS Swaminathan.

Laura Ramos , of Pond Point Avenue, Milford , was charged with second-degree sexual assault after police said she admitted having sexual intercourse with an 18-year-old student a number of times. But shortly after returning from the trip, the victim had told her foster mother what happened. The girl reported that, while she was the only passenger ...

During the run up to the vote, Obama Administration cyber-security officials took steps to prepare for widespread voter registration manipulation , fearing Russian Federation might seek to cause chaos at polling places to undermine the credibility of the election.

The Seattle Police Department released videos showing two vantage points of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles , a black mother of four, though the footage offers scant details of what occurred inside an apartment when two white Seattle police officers fired their weapons at the black mother of four, killing her.

Rosenstein didn't provide specific examples of what he might've been referring to. The Washington Post reported this week that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was also investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice , citing unnamed sources, a development that Mr Trump appeared to confirm in his Friday morning tweet .

Jurors on Wednesday found that Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was justified when he shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith after a brief foot chase following a traffic stop August 13. The jury deliberated for ten hours over two days, and after Judge Jeffrey Conen announced the verdict, Smith's family members sobbed. The defence argue...

MDA says the weed appears to be spreading quickly near St. Charles and Lanesboro, but could be growing elsewhere across the state. The plants emit an odor. If the individual is unresponsive or has trouble breathing, call 911. Anyone who thinks they see the plant is asked to take a picture and contact their local University of Minnesota Extension ...

At the same time, while it was a priority, he said, to show progress in averting difficulties for troubled Northern Ireland as a result of being on a new EU-UK border, agreement on how the border would work would depend on wider future trade ties.

As the version numbers indicate, there are no new front-facing features in any of these updates. The second beta of iOS 11 brings a very long list of bug fixes to deal with the issues that were unveiled in the first beta. Lock Screen changes - More of a cosmetic change here - a new blurring effect can be seen when you're pulling down to see...

The Western Mindanao Police Regional Office has activated Task Group Pigcawayan following the latest BIFF attack. Over 500 people from three villages in the town were forced to flee their homes to avoid being caught in the crossfire between troops and militants, GMA News quoted a police spokesman as saying.

We've wanted it to be one of the early issues to be considered in the negotiations. The fate of an estimated three million Europeans now living in Britain and around one million Britons living elsewhere in the EU was thrown into doubt by Britain's vote to leave the bloc past year.

He has pledged allegiance to the new crown prince and his younger cousin, Salman. Frederic Wehrey, of the Middle East Programme at Washington's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said "a lot of signaling" from Washington including a more activist regional foreign policy-influenced the appointment of Mohammed bin Salman as crown pri...

Handel, who has a long record opposing LGBT rights, will represent Georgia's 6 congressional district, which has historically leaned heavily Republican . He lost by a almost 4-point margin. Ossoff and Handel are vying for a seat that's open because "the president selected Tom Price, who held the district, for a cabinet position", Lake said ...

The Conservatives had hoped to secure a confidence and supply deal with the DUP , which it needs to ensure the Party has a majority, before the Queen's speech. "We will work hard everyday to gain the trust and confidence of the British people, making their priorities our priorities". Amid reports the talks between the DUP and Tories stalled ...

But there are conflicting signals about what is actually happening. On Friday, he seemed to confirm news reports that he was, tweeting , "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!" Jay Sekulow , told " Meet the Press " moderator Chuck Todd "The president is not under investigation ...

Following his designation as emir, the Maute Group designated itself as a chapter of ISIS by calling itself IS-Ranao, since they were based in Lanao del Sur. A P-3 Orion surveillance plane was seen flying over Marawi last Friday, said local media reports . The aircraft flew above rocket-firing Philippine helicopters that struck militant positi...

White House officials played down expectations of a dramatic breakthrough during the visit , the New York Times reported . Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group, has said that the rise in construction in the West Bank correlates to a drop in new buildings within Israel of 2.5%.

Cheng Xiaohe, an associate professor of global relations at Renmin University of China in Beijing, said that Xi's government had learned not to take Trump's Twitter messages at face value. Sponsors of terrorism are subject to "restrictions on USA foreign assistance; a ban on defense exports and sales; certain controls over exports of dual use ite...

McMonagle did not spend much time discussing the night of the alleged incident at Cosby's home, in which the entertainer gave Constand one-and-a-half pills he contended were Bendaryl and then digitally penetrated her. In addition, Constand initially told police that she had not been alone with Cosby prior to the alleged assault and that the...

The paper added that the United States has "absurd" expectations for Beijing to solve the issues on the Korean Peninsula and overestimates China's influence on Pyongyang. Trump's tweet was channeling the American people's frustration with North Korea as a " regime that provokes " and " plays outside the rules ", Mattis said.

Handel's victory denied Democrats the chance to flip a solidly Republican district in the hopes that Trump's rising unpopularity could sink congressional Republicans. "And they had to give up a lot to take these jobs ". It was also a sendoff for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, the nation's longest serving governor who will leave on June 26 to serv...

Trump's morning tweet storm came a day after former Homeland Security Adviser Jeh Johnson testified before the House Intelligence Committee that he hadn't seen any evidence that Trump or his campaign "colluded, conspired or coordinated" with the Russians - a charge often levied against Trump by detractors, who've yet to produce evidence backing...

The House approved its version of the bill last month. Reduce Medicaid "optional" benefits not required by law. The drafted bill repeals nearly all tax increases imposed by the Affordable Care Act to pay for itself, and cuts large parts of Medicaid, a health care program that affects one in five Americans, according to a report in the New Yo...

The report, chaired by former civil servant Moira Gibb, said that Ball had "abused many boys and men over a period of twenty years or more". The bishop in question, Peter Ball, was jailed in 2015 for admitting to the abuse of 18 men between the ages of 17 and 25 who had sought his guidance over spiritual concerns.